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Jehnny Beth was born on 24 December 1984 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. She is an actress and composer, known for Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Ex Machina (2014) and Stranger (2023).

Léonie Souchaud was born in 2002 in Poitiers, France. She is an actress, known for How I Became a Super Hero (2020), Mixte (2021) and Fanny's Journey (2016).

Olivier Mouroux's career in animation publicity has spanned across major studios including Disney, DreamWorks, Sony and Netflix. He led campaigns for many of the last two decades' most successful projects including Shrek 2, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, Tangled, Toy Story 3, Hotel Transylvania, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Klaus, I Lost My Body, Maya and the Three, or Nimona. He's played a critical role leading over 20 films to Oscar nominations and wins, and was Netflix's first animation publicity hire ever--setting the streamer up for success in that space.

Olivier got his break in the industry in 2003 after being noticed and subsequently hired by DreamWorks for running one of the first and most popular animation blogs. He also directed the official music video for Post Malone and Swae Lee's "Sunflower" single which went on to become the highest selling in history (first ever to reach Double-Diamond status in February 2024, 20x Platinum); the video was viewed over 2.3 billion times on its official YouTube post alone.

Rémi Chayé was born in 1968 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He is a director, known for Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary (2020), Long Way North (2015) and The Secret of Kells (2009).

Lucien Nonguet was born on 10 May 1869 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (1903), Freddy chef costumier (1919) and Les trois potards (1919). He died on 22 June 1955 in Fay-aux-Loges, Loiret, France.

Jules Berry was born on 9 February 1883 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was an actor, known for The Devil's Envoys (1942), Daybreak (1939) and Aventure à Paris (1936). He was married to Josseline Gaël. He died on 23 April 1951 in Paris, France.

Jean-Marie Serreau was a French theater actor and director, born April 28, 1915 in Poitiers and died May 22, 1973 in Clichy. He is first the husband of Geneviève Serreau, author and director, and the father of Dominique, Coline and Nicolas Serreau. His last wife was Danielle Van Bercheycke with whom he had two daughters, Raphaele and Kaloussai Serreau.

Having obtained his baccalaureate in 1936, Serreau went to Paris to enter the Beaux-Arts in the architecture section. He was discharged in 1939 because he lost an eye following an illness. Under the cover of theatrical teaching, he took part in the Resistance in Lyon. In 1942 he returned to Paris to complete his studies, and took lessons from Charles Dullin. In 1944, he was one of the creators of the association Travail et Culture, which campaigned for an education and a popular culture based on the union. In 1949 he created a company in his name and staged, among others, Molière, Brecht (l'Exception et la Ordre in 1949, the first Brecht staged in France since 1930), Kafka, Vian and Jarry. He allowed Roger Blin to create Waiting for Godot in his Théâtre de Babylone, in 1953, and staged "La Maison Brûlée" by Strindberg, in an adaptation by Boris Vian. He gives new authors a chance: Michel Vinaver, Marguerite Duras, Max Frisch. He introduced Brecht into the repertoire of the Comédie-Française, and staged Mère Courage at Jean Vilar's TNP. He is one of the first French directors to broaden, through audiovisual contributions, the framework of his stage shows.

He also became the spokesperson for the Third World by staging plays by Kateb Yacine "Le Cadavre Encerclé" (1958), Aimé Césaire "La Tragédie du Roi Christophe" (1964), or by playing "Les Bonnes" by Jean Genet by a West Indian troupe. In 1971 he founded the Théâtre de la Tempête at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes, where in 1973 he gave his last production, Le Printemps des bonnets rouges, by the Breton poet Paol Keineg. He died in Paris in 1973, after a long illness. A documentary directed by Alexandre Hilaire is dedicated to him in 2015: entitled "Jean-Marie Serreau, Discoverer of Theaters", the film focuses on his collaborations with Aimé Césaire and Kateb Yacine; there appear in particular Coline Serreau, Michael Lonsdale and Edgar Morin. A Serreau retrospective took place in 2021-2022, on the occasion of installations at the Théâtre de la Tempête and the Comédie-Française. One of the rehearsal studios at the Théâtre l'Odéon in Paris now bears his name.

Michel Foucault was born on 15 October 1926 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was a writer, known for Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère... (1976), The Lives of Infamous Men (2022) and Obliteration Systems (1979). He died on 26 June 1984 in Paris, France.

Édouard Bergeon was born on 29 September 1982 in Poitiers, France. He is a director and writer, known for The Green Deal (2024), Au nom de la terre (2019) and L'amour vache (2023).

Gérard Caillaud was born on 10 April 1946 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was an actor, known for Marie-Antoinette (1975), Au théâtre ce soir (1966) and Les dossiers de l'écran (1967). He died on 27 January 2023 in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Simon Pagenaud was born on 18 May 1984 in Poitiers, Poitou-Charentes, France. He is an actor, known for Veekay (2023), Inside the Indy Challenge (2013) and ARX-06: The Origin Story (2023).

Michel Laurent was born on 14 June 1936 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was an actor, known for The Last Metro (1980), Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966) and The Big Feast (1973). He died on 4 February 2024 in Bergerac, Dordogne, France.

Joël Robuchon was born on 7 April 1945 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was a writer, known for Bon appétit bien sûr (2000), Champs-Elysées (1982) and Empreintes (2007). He died on 6 August 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Brian Joubert was born on 20 September 1984 in Poitiers, France. He is an actor, known for Brisons la glace (2019), Be Good Johnny Weir (2010) and Linzer Eiszauber (2013).

Robert Ancelin was born on 22 November 1898 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was an actor, known for L'empreinte sanglante (1934), Le client du numéro 16 (1933) and Deux blondes (1934). He died on 25 January 1986 in Paris, France.

Marc Augé was born on 2 September 1935 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was an actor, known for Alice (1970), Con cuore puro (2012) and Ripostes (1999). He was married to Françoise Héritier. He died on 24 July 2023 in France.

Ulysse Josselin was born on 5 May 1998 in Poitiers, France. He is an actor and director, known for Ils s'aiment (2023) and 2024, Une Année Quelconque.

After attending high school, which he graduated from in his hometown, Raffarin enrolled in law in Paris-Assas and at the "Ecole Supérieure de Commerce", a renowned higher business school in the French capital. He obtained a business diploma and joined the marketing department of the company "Cafés Jacques Vabre" in 1973, where he worked until 1976. In 1977, Raffarin began his party political career as deputy general secretary and member of the Political Bureau of the Republican Party. In the same year he was elected to the Poitiers city council, where he remained represented until 1995.

From 1976 to 1981, Raffarin worked as an economic policy advisor in the office of the French Minister of Labor. At the same time, from 1978 to 1995 he remained loyal to the free economy as president of the "Créditimmobilienr Rural de la Vienne". Raffarin also worked as a lecturer at the "Institut d'Études Politiques" in Paris from 1979 to 1988. From 1981 to 1988 he also headed "Bernard Krief Communication" as general director. In 1988/89 Raffarin worked as general representative at the "Euro-92 Institute". From 1986 to 1988 Raffarin was a member of the regional council and from 1988 president of the regional council of Poitou-Charentes. He also sat in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1995. From 1993 to 1995, Raffarin continued to act as deputy general secretary and spokesman for the "Union pour la Démocratie Française" (UDF), of which he was promoted to general secretary in 1995.

From 1994 to 1998 he also headed the "Arc Atlantique" commission. In 1995, Raffarin took on his first senior government position as Minister for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Trade and Crafts, where he served until 1997. In 1995 he was also elected to the Senate of the French Republic for Vienne. At the same time, Raffarin served as deputy mayor of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou from 1995 to 2001. In 1997 he was promoted to vice-president of the Liberal Democratic Party. From 1998 to 2002 he was president of the "Association des régions de France". After the early resignation of the socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, an interim government was set up on May 6, 2002 under the Liberal Democrat Raffarin, which served until the subsequent parliamentary elections in June 2002.

In the elections of June 9 and June 16, 2002, the "Démocratie Libérale" won a victory, so that President Jacques Chirac nominated Raffarin as the new Prime Minister of the French Republic. During the subsequent legislative period, France took a clearly negative position in the foreign policy area under Raffarin's government in the UN Security Council against the Iraq war triggered by US and British troops in March 2003. Internally, the Raffarin government suffered a significant loss of confidence due to the heat victims of August 2003: As a result of the pan-European heat wave, several thousand mostly elderly people died in France due to a lack of care.

Raffarin then developed the social policy program "Age and Solidarity", which is intended to improve care for the elderly and disabled in the republic. In this context, at the end of October 2003, the government also announced the abolition of public holidays, such as Whit Monday, to finance utility services. In mid-March 2005, Raffarin, together with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and politicians, inaugurated the converted Jad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel. At the end of April 2005, as part of the Franco-German understanding, Raffarin met with his counterpart Gerhard Schröder and the French President Jacques Chirac for the 5th Franco-German Council of Ministers.

On May 29, 2005, the French referendum on the European Constitution, which was negative, triggered a crisis in the Paris government. Prime Minister Raffarin then resigned from his office. On May 31, 2005, French President Jacques Chirac appointed the previous Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin as his successor as head of government.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin has been married to Anne-Marie Perrier since 1980, with whom he has one child.

Frédéric Hauss was born on 10 May 1978 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. Frédéric is a cinematographer, known for The Pink Panther (2006), A Good Year (2006) and Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008).

Antoine Brizard was born on 22 May 1994 in Poitiers, Vienne, France.

Marie-France Garaud was born on 6 March 1934 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. She was married to Louis Garaud. She died on 22 May 2024 in Saint-Pompain, Deux-Sèvres, France.

Dominique Jamet was born on 16 February 1936 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He is a writer, known for Un petit Parisien (2002), Droit de réponse: l'esprit de contradiction (1981) and À bout portant (1968).

Isabelle Ferron was born on 21 January 1967 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. She is an actress, known for Roméo & Juliette: De la haine à l'amour (2002), Les gens honnêtes vivent en France (2005) and Pédale douce (1996).

Jacques Puisais was born on 8 June 1927 in Poitiers, Poitou-Charentes, France. He was an actor, known for Les jurés de l'ombre (1989), Le Malade Imaginaire (2009) and Le misanthrope (1971). He died on 6 December 2020 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France.

Claudine Guillemin was born on 9 February 1944 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. She is a director and writer, known for La femme intégrale (1980), Veronique (1975) and Love in the Afternoon (1972).